By Peter Campbell
David Rees, skipper of winning offshore racing yacht Whistler, swapped his keelboat for a Paper Tiger catamaran with success in the Crown Series Bellerive Regatta over the weekend, 
Rees sailed the Paper Tiger Pan Gallaltic into...
Bellerive Yacht Club stalwart Jeff Cordell today overcame a racing rules infringement and a countback to win the coveted IRC rating category of Division 1 of the Crown Series Bellerive Regatta with his Mumm 36 Host Plus Executive.
The Crown Series Bellerive...
By Peter Campbell
Many of Tasmania’s most talented dinghy, skiff and catamaran sailors, in both senior and youth classes, will line up for today’s final three races in the Crown Series 2011 Bellerive Regatta, with the promise of better sailing conditions.
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By Peter Campbell
The Huon Yacht Club entry Cleopatra rules the waves on the River Derwent after three races in the Performance Cruising Division of the Crown Series Bellerive Regatta.
Cleopatra, a Mumm 30 skippered by Scott Sharp, mostly races on the Huon River, but this weekend she is making a cameo appearance on the Derwent, so far notching up a first and two second...
Queensland yachtsmen Phil Gray and Rod Jones quickly came to terms to the vagaries of the River Derwent when they won two of three heats of the inaugural International SB3 Tasmanian championship, being sailed as part of the Crown Series 2011 Bellerive Regatta.
With Gray, from Mooloolaba, on the helm and boat owner Jones, from the Gold Coast, on the main and calling tactics, Club...
By Peter Campbell
Bellerive yachtsmen Jeff Cordell and Hughie Lewis are sharing the top honours in Division 1 after day two of their club’s Crown Series 2011 Bellerive Regatta.
Cordell and his well-sailed Mumm 36 Host Plus Executive excelled in the very light breeze on a...
By Peter Campbell
Greg Prescott’s Melges 32, 2 Unlimited, outsailed the Division 1 fleet in this evening’s twilight race that opened the Crown Series 2011 Bellerive Regatta for keelboats, sports boats, SB3s and trailable yachts.
With the breeze mostly less than 6...
The first Tasmanian crew to win the Lightweight Sharpie national championship in eight years will return to racing on the River Derwent this weekend in the off-the-beach section of the Crown Series 2011 Bellerive Regatta.
Sailing One Hump or Two, Drew Latham, Nick Carter and Nick ‘Camel’ Johnston won the invitation race and four heats of the championship, sailing against...
It’s long, lean, painted warship grey and it’s name is Stealth. This fast 29-foooter has been turning the heads of yachtsmen in the carpark at the Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania.
This evening the locals will have their first sail against Steath when it make its racing debut on...
A huge fleet of 105 of keelboats, plus up to 80 off-the-beach dinghies, sailboards, skiffs and catamarans, will line up on the River Derwent this coming weekend for the Crown Series Bellerive Regatta 2011.
The regatta, organised by Bellerive Yacht Club, will start with a twilight race for keelboats this Friday evening, 25 February, and continue on Saturday and Sunday with the off-...
